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maxhille 48 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash...

1. It is GPL, so you can't change the license without permission from all contributors 2. It has lots of contributors. And now that I think about it I guess some of those are not even alive anymore to grant any sort of permission

shagie 48 days ago [–]

It is also GPL 2 - not "GPL 2 or later" so it can't be relicensed to a future version that has additional or different terms.

Linus on GPL 3: Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU

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